Assessing the Needs of Carers of People with Mental Illness
Lessons from a Collaborative Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12882160 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynelle Watts (0000-0002-5886-5889, Edith Cowan University), David Hodgson (0000-0002-0100-6274, Edith Cowan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 235-252 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1742-4909 • E-ISSN: 0950-3153 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09503153.2015.1120279 |
| OpenAlex | W2202579263 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper is concerned with improving assessment practices with people who are carers of people with mental illness. It is established that the well-being of carers is negatively impacted by the burden of their caring role, and that the needs of carers are often overlooked and poorly responded to by formal helping services. It is the purpose here to report on findings from the data provided by a subset of participants from a broader collaborative research project that developed and trialled a carer’s assessment tool. The goal was to establish whether the tool was useful in practice for the purposes of assessment. This paper outlines key principles for practitioners and services to consider in their assessment practices with carers. These include an assessment process that allows carers to focus on their own feelings independent of the person they may be caring for; the importance of developing a feeling of solidarity with other carers while validating their caring experience; a comprehensive and holistic assessment process; and, opportunities to prioritise in a collaborative manner what might be an overwhelming number of areas of need or concern
Feeling · Focus group · Mental health · Mental illness · Needs assessment · Process (computing · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Solidarity · Family and Disability Support Research · Family Caregiving in Mental Illness · Family Support in Illness · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology
Gain in the Caregiving Experience
The structure of negative emotional states
Social Research
Do different stakeholder groups share mental health research priorities? A four‐arm Delphi study
An Outcomes Focus in Career Assessment and Review
Carers and Empowerment in the UK
A Classification of Family Carers’ Problems as Described by Counsellors
An emotive subject
Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfare
In their Own Right
A Study of the Carers Strategy (2000)
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |